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Having just missed by Bali - Kuala Lumpur and connecting Kuala Lumpur to Kota Bharu flights (I thought they were tomorrow morning, but they were this morning), thought would be useful to inform you all that in situations like this (and unlike full service carriers) if you have purchased a return ticket (as I had) the return legs are still valid. On many full service carriers, if you miss the first leg you're tagged as noshow and the entire ticket is invalidated.

So the flights you miss are lost forever, but the return legs are still valid.

Use the TripIt app - it's handy for stuff like that. You can forward your confirmation emails for flight and hotel bookings and it keeps a record of everything, sends reminders, etc. I think you can also get it to scan your inbox so you don't have to remember to forward them on but I personally don't like that. I just set up a forwarding rule in my inbox to handle it.

I was going to give you some stick about missing the flight - but then I figured that karma would come to haunt me if I did. I've been lucky so far to not screw up any of my flight or hotel bookings - but I reckon the day will come when I show up somewhere a day late!

Leonard, not sure why you think there aren't return flights with Air Asia? There is very clearly a one-way or return option when booking.

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